The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 593 Laizhou Naval Battle
Another series of deafening cannon shots echoed in the air, and a volunteer general also came over and said with a grin, "When did the captives become so diligent? They started to practice as soon as it was lighted this day."

Xie Qian frowned and shook his head, "I've seen the captives practice, and most of them just fired a few cannons at will to show that it's okay, and they can't fire so recklessly."

Old Feng also said: "Moreover, the sound doesn't seem to be coming from the sea in the distance, but it seems to be in Laizhou Port. The bandit army should leave the port first if they want to practice."

Xie Qian was suddenly happy, "In my opinion, someone must be attacking the enemy's port!"

As if to prove his words, thick black smoke gradually rose from the northeast direction, which could be seen from a long distance away, obviously the smoke produced by a large number of heavy artillery fires.

Several officers beside him looked at each other, they were all shocked, "Who is so courageous, dare to do something in Laizhou?"

"This is the Shandong border, what kind of people are they?"

"Listening to the movement, there are a lot of heavy artillery, how many troops are here?!"

"If you want to say that the whole world dares to attack Laizhou at this time, and has so many artillery pieces, I can only think of one—" Xie Qian looked at the black smoke in the sky, and said in a deep voice, "Da Ming Navy!"

The generals of the rebel army immediately recalled the incidents in which the Daming Navy sailed thousands of miles to attack Dagu, and then turned to attack Shenyang, Yongping, Dengzhou and other places, which made the Jian captives exhausted and panicked.

"Could it be that the navy is attacking Laizhou again?"

"I think it's probably the case." The excited light in Xie Qian's eyes was beating, and he waved to the generals under his command, "Call all the brothers, don't rob this grain truck! Let's go to Laizhou Port to join in the fun!"

Old Feng hurriedly said: "General, there are four to five thousand soldiers and horses guarding Laizhou Port, and more than 700 of us rushed there, I'm afraid..."

"What are you afraid of?!" Xie Qian patted him on the shoulder and said with a heroic smile, "Under the disturbance of the navy army, the captives will be in a mess. If we take advantage of the gap and rush in, there will be great gains!"

Seeing that his subordinates were still hesitating, he said loudly: "We Shandong men never owe others favors! Last time, if the sailors hadn't rescued us, we would have been driven into the sea by the tartars. If we can help the sailors this time, it will be considered Repay one or two."

All the generals of the rebel army were moved when they heard the words.Two months ago, they were defeated by Luck Dehun's main force and fled all the way to Lijin County. There was a raging sea in front of them, and the Qing army was chasing them behind them.At this time, more than ten warships from the Daming Navy arrived and sent their remnants to a nearby small island, leaving behind a lot of food, grass, and weapons, which saved them from disaster and preserved the foundation for a comeback.

Everyone put away their timidity and nodded one after another, "Yes, we are still afraid of captives?!"

"Hit the fuck! The head is gone, but the scar is as big as a bowl, and the navy master must not underestimate the man!"

"Let's go! Fuck his big ticket..."

Xie Qian smiled and said: "This is Xie's brother! Let us take advantage of the chaos and burn the grain in Hong Kong, which is a hundred times better than robbing his grain cart everywhere!"

The place where they set up an ambush was only more than ten miles away from Laizhou Port, and they rushed to the west side of the port in less than an hour.

As Xie Qian said, the Qing army was already in chaos when it was suddenly attacked.However, for convenience, the rebel army fought the flag of Jianlu Laizhou guarding Li Dechun. Along the way, they ran into three groups of soldiers who were mobilized to help defend, but they all nodded to each other.

The rebels had known where the grain was stored in Laizhou Port for a long time—they raided and robbed the grain trucks of Jianlu many times, and they found out at first instance when they arrested the grain supervisor.It was a high slope more than three miles away from the port. Zheng Zhilong never thought that the Ming army would attack Laizhou Port, so a simple wooden wall was built on it, mainly to prevent bandits.

When Xie Qian arrived, he met a group of troops coming out of the Qing army camp, and they should have rushed to the port for reinforcements.He waited for the group of captive soldiers to go halfway, and suddenly led his troops to kill them.

The weapons in the hands of the rebels are all good things brought in by the navy, and the most expensive firecrackers are Lumi blunderbusses, and there are even a lot of ten-dollar blunderbusses.So just a few rows of firecrackers passed by, and the green battalion soldiers screamed and scattered in all directions.

Xie Qian personally brought a knife and axe to cover up the killing, and kept shouting along the way, "The Dragon Guards of the Ming Dynasty are attacking! Kneel down and beg for surrender!"

When they attacked from the west gate of the Luzhai where the grain was stored, nearly a thousand guards of the Qing army were frightened and fled from the east gate.

Xie Qian ordered the gunners to shoot the ground, stood on the wall of the village and looked up, and saw the Laizhou port in the distance, with six huge white cloth-sail warships as large as hills as the core, and three or four smaller ones on each side. The warships followed each other, formed several battle formations, and were rushing around.

He had seen this kind of ship with tall masts in Lijin before, and knew that it was a warship of the Daming Navy.

Those ships plunged into the harbor like tigers diving into a flock of sheep, and the cannons on both sides of the ship kept roaring.The surrounding Jianlu warships were flying sawdust, and one of them sank to the bottom of the sea from time to time, leaving a string of bubbles on the water surface.There were even small enemy ships that couldn't bear the tearing of the heavy artillery, and were instantly cut into two pieces.

Jianlu was obviously not ready for battle—in fact, they had just had breakfast at this point, and the sailors were still gathered on the pier—a large number of ships were congested in the inner harbor on the south side and could not move, and even the outer warships were lacking Driving by hand, they can only barely raise the sails in an attempt to escape from the port.

In Laizhou Port, the tops of the masts of sunken ships can be seen everywhere on the sea, and many captive ships ignited raging fire and circled around in place, but few ships fired back.

"The sailor is really courageous..." Lao Feng was stunned as he watched from the sidelines, "With just thirty or so warships, they dared to rush into the captive port to kill the enemy."

Xie Qian said with a smile: "Last time, General Zhang of the navy said that our naval warships are extremely strong, and equipped with a lot of artillery, so that they can easily defeat the captive ships by one against ten.

"Don't underestimate the 30 or so ships. Even if you fight with your opponents, the captives may not be able to win. Now that the navy is attacking suddenly, the thieves are caught off guard, and they will definitely win the battle! "

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard two loud bangs from the direction of Laizhou Port, which overwhelmed all the previous cannons, and then several smaller cannons.

Immediately afterwards, several water sprays several feet high arose around the warship of the Ming army, obviously heavy artillery shells fell there.

This should be the thieves' heavy artillery firing back!Xie Qian was startled and looked around.Old Feng next to him patted his arm vigorously, pointed to a towering earth barrier on the west side of Laizhou Port and said anxiously: "General, it's a captive fortress!"

Xie Qian followed his fingers to look, and saw the fire flickering on the earth barrier, which was enveloped in black smoke for a moment.Not far away, there was a muffled sound from the Ming army warship on the water, as if it had been hit by a shell, but it was unknown how damaged it was.

He frowned, "Listening to the sound of the cannon, it must be a very powerful heavy cannon. Laizhou Port is narrow, and there are many enemy ships congested around it. It may be difficult for naval warships to avoid it."

He glanced at the rebel soldiers around him, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Guan Si, you bring two hundred brothers to burn the food and grass here. The rest of you will follow me to take down the fort and help the navy destroy the captives!"

(End of this chapter)